Seattle’s stalwart rock venue Crocodile Cafe–abruptly closed down late 2007, due to reopen early 2009–had in Jim Anderson a first-rate sound man, and from 2001 on he archived some 3,000 hoursof his own work in a private tape library of concerts he’d engineered. Now that archive will be available to the visitors of the University of Washington library on a visit-and-listen basis: not an MP3 bonanza, alas, but a nice perk for Seattle-dwellers and surely a boon to historians down the line. [Line Out]
